Jon Lim is a Tech Reviewer at Staples Canada Tech Hub as well as a Software Engineer for Proofpoint, Inc. His passion is technology and after seeing the DJI Osmo, he immediately wanted to put it through its paces. After a short hands-on demo, Jon already sung the Osmo’s praises in an article for the Staples Canada Tech Hub, but we wanted to really test the Osmo as a filmmaking tool. What would it be like, he wondered, to shoot and edit a short film entirely with just the Osmo and DJI Go? Here’s what he discovered and some of the lessons and tricks he learned along the way.
- Trusting the Gimbal
Going into his experiment, Jon already knew he could rely on some of the stabilization features that the Osmo provides.
“You can lock it on a specific point, you can have it roll along with your motion, or you can control it directly using the joystick,” he says.
Jon used this feature so he could focus on composition and movement, rather than the often complex logistics of making a shot look smooth.
- The Gimbal has its limitations
Despite being able to stabilize within a certain degree, the Osmo can only handle so much. When Jon tried shooting from a car, the bumps in the road made him jump in his seat – causing the footage to look more jumpy than usual.
“The shot itself was steady, but the hands holding the camera were getting jerked around, so the end result was jarring and discombobulated,” he said
Additionally, strong wind will affect the gimbal’s motors, so hanging it outside of a moving car will overpower the motors and decrease the efficiency of the motors.
Jon’s shoot lasted around 6 hours in total but actual shoot time was only about an hour. The Osmo can do many things wonderfully but there’s no free Osmo lunch without the power needed to shoot in 4K while using a phone connected to Wi-Fi.
Jon’s advice: “If you’re going to be doing any extensive shooting with the DJI Osmo, I highly recommend you bring a battery for every 30 minutes of footage (or 60 minutes of standby time) that you’d like to capture.”
Watch Jon’s Osmo only film ‘Touring the 6ix #FiestaFoodie’ — “where we drove around the six boroughs of Toronto, eating at a restaurant in each one” — here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6ahihQc7A
So… the gimbal is good but not always and it runs low on batteries… We need some more positives here.
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